* Sune Kristensen
Guy Van Sanden wrote:
I've posted some messages to this list a while ago about my Asus A7V133A motherboard running too hot with Linux. Thanks to all of you who tried to help me!
I think I found the problem. The BIOS fails to initialize a register in my CPU to make it accept HLT instructions. With Win9x, that doesn't matter, because it doesn't generate those instructions anyway. If you use programs like CPUIDLE, they set the register correctly, and you don't see the problem.
I don't know if it only affects my board (production error), or that the problems is much wider... But I've tested with an Elite motherboard, same CPU, it runs at 34°C idle, compared to 55°C on the Asus.
This could be a major problem for all Linux users owning such a board.
Why ? Isn;t theresome way to do the same as CPUIDLE under Linux ? All we need to do is set a register ? Which register ?
I have the same problem, the only difference is that the system is running windows 2000.
It is a Asus A7V133 with a 900 Mhz Athlon TBird running at 60 C with air cooling. I can get it down to about 50 C with water cooling.
I've got an AMD 1.4 w/ an MSI KT266 board, and the sucker is getting hot (60C) and I can get it down to approx 45 with environmental cooling (that is,open up the sides of the box and let the environment cool the box). Gerhard, <@jasongeo.com> == The Acoustic Motorbiker == -- __O Some say the end is near. =`\<, Some say we'll see armageddon soon (=)/(=) I certainly hope we will I could use a vacation